[Samba] Samba broken after dist-upgrade in Ubuntu 20.04?

[Joachim Lindenberg]

Hello,

I installed updates today on my Ubuntu 20.04 and after that, Samba was disabled/masked/not installed at all. 

Even attempting to install samba again reports:

 

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

distribution that some required packages have not yet been created

or been moved out of Incoming.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

 

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

samba : Depends: samba-common (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.6) but 2:4.12.10+dfsg-0.1focal1 is to be installed

         Depends: samba-common-bin (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.6) but 2:4.12.10+dfsg-0.1focal1 is to be installed

         Depends: libwbclient0 (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.6) but 2:4.12.10+dfsg-0.1focal1 is to be installed

         Depends: samba-libs (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.6) but 2:4.12.10+dfsg-0.1focal1 is to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

 

Is this a know issue? And how can I recover from that situation?

As I ran into similar issues when upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04 – is Ubuntu supported at all?

Thanks, Joachim